4. For if he who comes preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit, which you did not receive, or a different “good news”, which you did not accept, you put up with that well enough.
5. For I reckon that I am not at all behind the very best apostles.
6. But though I am unskilled in speech, yet I am not unskilled in knowledge. No, in every way we have been revealed to you in all things.
7. Or did I commit a sin in humbling myself that you might be exalted, because I preached to you God’s Good News free of charge?
8. I robbed other assemblies, taking wages from them that I might serve you.
9. When I was present with you and was in need, I wasn’t a burden on anyone, for the brothers, when they came from Macedonia, supplied the measure of my need. In everything I kept myself from being burdensome to you, and I will continue to do so.